Food budget

apple17
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:26:40 +0000

Yup, I expect him to cook his own meals. The older one already does. The younger one is living with two other friends. So he’s responsible for, lets say, 2 dinners a week. And lets say they have pizza, take out chinese or go out one night a week. We’re sending a crock pot, a George Forman grill, and a microwave with him.


Meat - they can pick up chicken, roast , hamburger. Throw it in the crock pot with a can of soup mix / marinade / ethnic flavoring / water. Add potatoes and, heaven forbid, some veggies. Go to class, ready when you come home.


Or they grill a chicken breast or hamburgers. Again, not too tough.


Salad - That’s really not tough. More a matter of whether they will bother.
Veggies - If they make hamburgers or grill something else, they can cook a package of frozen vegetables. They make them now with nice flavoring, if they don’t want the basic peas and carrots.


And when they forget / are busy / etc. there are frozen dinner ideas that can be used. And there’s always PB&J / canned soup / etc as backups. So yes, they are cooking on their own.

(My son hated the cafeteria food last year, lost 10 pounds off his already skinny frame.)